W understands the importance of keeping your personal information secure and private.

This website (the “WEBSITE”) is owned and operated by FOXTEL Management Pty Ltd (“FOXTEL”), ACN 65 068 671 938.

This Privacy Policy applies to the collection, storage, use and dissemination by W of your personal information (“YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION”). This Privacy Policy has been developed in line with the requirements under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the National Privacy Principles. Access to the contents of this site is conditional upon you accepting this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use of this Website. You should read both thoroughly, before using the site.

This Privacy Policy contains the following information regarding Your Personal Information:

1.    What happens if we change this Privacy Policy
2.    What we mean by ‘Personal Information’
3.    What happens if you leave this website
4.    How we collect Your Personal Information
5.    How we store and secure Your Personal Information
6.    How we use and disclose Your Personal Information
7.    How we grant access to Your Personal Information
8.    How we treat children’s privacy
9.    How you can contact us
10.    Disclaimer
11.    How you can find out more Information about Privacy

1. What happens if we change this Privacy Policy
W will review this Privacy Statement periodically and reserves the right, at its discretion, to modify or remove portions of this statement at any time for any reason whatsoever. You should review this page periodically so that you are aware of and satisfied with any such changes. Your continued use of the Website following any amendments is valid confirmation of your acceptance of such changes.

2. What we mean by “Personal Information”
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, Personal Information means information or an opinion (including information or an opinion forming part of a database), whether true or not, and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an individual, whose identity is apparent, or can reasonably be ascertained, from the information or opinion.

3. What happens if you leave this Website
While using this Website you may come across links to other websites not operated by W. This Privacy Policy does not apply to those websites, because W does not have control over them. This Privacy Policy only applies to this Website, and you should always familiarise yourself with the privacy policies for each website you visit.

4. How we collect Your Personal Information
We collect Your Personal Information to enhance your use of the Website and to continually improve the Website for you and other users.

Some of the information collected will not personally identify you, but instead allows us to personalise your use of the site. We obtain this information by our use of ‘Cookies’. Cookies are commonly used by websites on the internet and are a feature usually placed in your hard drive that recognises and identifies your computer. Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you and we do not use Cookies in order to obtain such information. Your browser should allow you to refuse Cookies if you choose.

We collect Your Personal Information such as your email address and your name for the purposes of answering your queries if you choose to ‘Contact Us’ via this Website or if you ask us to “Tell a Friend” about our Website.

On this Website, we do not collect Your Personal Information for the purposes of direct marketing unless you specifically ask us to do so.

5. How we store and secure Your Personal Information
We will use all reasonable endeavours to maintain the security of Your Personal Information.

We require our staff and service providers to respect the confidentiality of Your Personal Information.

We adhere to the requirements set out in the Privacy Act and the National Privacy Principles for storing and securing Your Personal Information.

 

6. How we use and disclose Your Personal Information
We will not disclose Your Personal Information to advertisers

We may be required to disclose some information that does not personally identify you to advertisers to provide advertisers with aggregate statistics of people that have seen or linked to their advertisements on this Website. This assists us in improving this Website and assists us to provide the Website and its features to you and other users at no cost.

We may provide information about you to our (W) related bodies corporate. Only if you specifically consent to them doing so, our commercial sponsors, advertisers, business partners, program distributors or associates located both in and outside Australia (“OUR PARTNERS”) may send you information about their products and/or services. If you provide such consent and subsequently decide that you do not wish to receive information about these products and/or services, please contact us and advise us accordingly. You can contact us by clicking the “Contact Us” link n this Website, or you can find out how to contact us by reading the “How you can Contact Us” section of this Privacy Policy. We will use reasonable endeavours to effect your request within 14 days of receipt of our receipt of your request.

7. How we grant access to Your Personal Information
We will use all reasonable endeavours to keep Your Personal Information accurate. Please contact us to examine Your Personal Information if required. You can contact us by clicking the “Contact Us” link on this Website, or you can find out how to contact us by reading the “How you can Contact Us” section of this Privacy Policy. We will use reasonable endeavours to provide you with a complete list of Your Personal Information within 14 days of receipt of your request.

You may contact us to amend any of Your Personal Information that is inaccurate or you may request that Your Personal Information be deleted. You can contact us by clicking the “Contact Us” link on this Website, or you can find out how to contact us by reading the “How you can Contact Us” section of this Privacy Policy. We will use reasonable endeavours to amend or delete your records, as requested, within 14 days of receipt of this notice. If applicable, any legal requirement on us to maintain certain records of Your Personal Information shall prevail over any of your requests.

8. How we treat children’s privacy
All person’s under the age of 18 must obtain the consent of their parents or legal guardians before using this Website or before submitting any information via this Website. We will adhere to this Privacy Policy in respect of any information submitted by minors but the primary responsibility rests on parents and guardians to properly supervise their children’s use of this Website.

9. How you can contact us
If you have any queries regarding this Privacy Policy or would like to read, amend or delete any of Your Personal Information, please contact W by email. Send your email to wchannel@foxtel.com.au. You can also contact us by writing to us at W Channel, 5 Thomas Holt Drive, North Ryde NSW 2113.

10. Disclaimer
We will collect, use or disclose information that personally identifies you as set out in this Privacy Policy unless in our opinion W is required by law to protect the rights or property of the channel or any third party, or to avoid injury to any person.

W and this Privacy Policy may be subject to applicable legislation, regulations and codes of practices. To the extent that this Policy exceeds the minimum obligations of W under Commonwealth and State legislation, this Privacy Policy serves as documentation of our voluntarily self-imposed standards. While we are determined to meet those standards as best we can, to the extent permitted by law, W is not liable if it does not adhere to any of these standards, for any loss, liability, costs, expense or damage arising as a result of W failing to meet any of the voluntarily self-imposed standards in this Privacy Policy.

11. How you can find out more Information about Privacy
If you would like further information about your rights to privacy, please see the Australian Privacy Commissioner’s website or contact the Internet Industry Association.